When I was waiting in a bar where were you ?
When I was buying you a drink where were you ?
When I was crying home in bed where were you ?
When I watched you from a distance did you see me ?
You were standing in a queue did you see me ?
You had yellow hair did you see me ?
I want to talk to you all night do you like me ?
I want to find out about your life do you like me ?
Could you ever be my wife do you love me ?

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

1606 (-) Catholic conspirator Guy Guido Fawkes is executed by hanging at the age of 35 in Westminster, United Kingdom.1797 (+) Composer Franz Peter Schubert is born in Vienna, Lichtenthal, Austria.1921 (+) Tenor and actor Mario Lanza originally Alfredo Arnold Cocozza, is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1923 (+) Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is born in Long Branch, New Jersey, USA.1939 (+) Serial Killer and Necrophiliac Jerry Jerome Henry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, is born in Webster, South Dakota, USA.1941 (+) Founder of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging Eugène Ney Terre’Blanche is born in Ventersdorp, South Africa.1949 (+) Serial Killer Robert Berdella aka The Kansas City Butcher, is born in Cuhahoga Falls, Ohio, USA.1954 (-) Inventor of FM radio Edwin Howard Armstrong commits suicide by jumping from the thirteenth floor window of his flat at the age of 63 in New York, New York, USA.He was lonely and depressed over the FM patent dispute.1955 (-) Founder of the WMCA John Raleigh Mott dies at the age of 89 in Cornell, New York, USA.1956 (+) Sex Pistol John Joseph Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, is born in London, United Kingdom.1959 (-) Jack Larber dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 72 in San Francisco, Laguna Honda Home, California, USA.1964 (x) Serial Killer Wladimir Ionesyan aka Iwan The Axeman, is sentenced to death for five murders in Armenia, Russia.1967 (-) Bozena Raczkiewicz is knifed and mutilated to death with a broken bottle by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 18 in Lodz, Poland.

1969 (-) Guru Meher Baba originally Merwan Sheriar Irani aka The Silent Avatar, dies of intense muscular spasms at the age of 74 in Meherazad, India.1974 (-) Film producer Samuel Goldwyn originally Szmuel Gelbfisz, dies of natural causes at the age of 94 in Hollywood, California, USA.1974 (x) 92 Die in Pan Am Airliner crash in Pago Pago, Samoa.1978 (-) Elena Rytka is hammered and stabbed to death by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 18 in Huddersfield, Great Northern Street, United Kingdom.1979 (x) 49-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is released from the Norfolk Regional Center after serving 5 months for sodomising a 16-year-old boy in Omaha, Nebraska, USA.1986 (-) Virginie Labrette is tortured to death by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 76 in Paris 12th, 25 rue de Wattignies, France.1995 (-) Murderer Willie Ray Williams is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1996 (x) 86 Die in an explosives-filled truck crash in Colombo, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka.At least 1400 people are injured.2000 (x) 88 Die in Alaska Airlines Flight 261 MD-83 crash into the Pacific Ocean in Point Mugu, California, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Randall Wayne Sr. Hafdahl aka Jack Douglas Cone, is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Double murderer Jaime Jr. Elizalde is executed by lethal injection at the age of 34 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2009 (x) 113 Die in an oil spillage ignition in Molo, Kenya.

Monday, January 30, 2012

1835 (x) 67-year-old 7th president of the USA Andrew Jackson aka Old Hickory, escapes the first ever assassination-attempt on a president when Richard Lawrence’s 2 pistols both misfire in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1849 (+) President of France Félix Faure is born in Paris, France.1882 (+) 32nd president of the USA Franklin Delano Roosevelt is born in Hyde Park, New York, USA.1889 (-) Juliette Deitsch is murdered in a magickal sex-rite by Etienne Deschamps at the age of 12 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.1889 (-) Crown Prince Rudolf Habsburg commits suicide by a shot through the head at the age of 30 in Mayerling, the royal hunting lodge, Austria.He probably killed his lover, 17-year-old baroness Mary Vetsera, first and then took his own life. There is no question that the depression-prone Rudolf and Mary had a suicide-pact.1896 (x) Presentation of the first motion picture, "A Passion Play" by Rich Hollaman in Hollywood, Eden Musée, California, USA.1915 (+) SS-Oberst Joachim Peiper of the Division Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler , is born in Berlin, Germany.1927 (+) Prime-minister Olof Palme is born in Stockholm, Sweden.1930 (+) Actor Gene Eugene Allen Hackman is born in San Bernardino, California, USA.1930 (+) Director of the Deutsche Bank Alfred Herrhausen is born in Germany.1930 (+) Would-be Assassin of President Richard Nixon, Samuel Joseph Byck is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1933 (x) 43-year-old Führer of the Third Reich Adolf Hitler is appointed as ReichsKanssler in Berlin, Germany.1937 (+) Actress Vanessa Redgrave is born in London, United Kingdom.1945 (x) Cabatuan-KZ is liberated by the American Armed Forces in Japan.1947 (+) Small Faces guitarist Steve Stephen Peter Marriott is born in London, Manor Park, East Ham Hospital, Essex, United Kingdom.1948 (-) Airplane pioneer Orville Wright dies of a heart attack at the age of 76 in Dayton, Ohio, USA.

1948 (-) Mahatma Gandhi aka The Apostle of Non-violence, is shot dead by Nathuram Vinayak Godse at the age of 78 in Delhi, Berli House, India.1951 (+) Musician Phil Collins is born in London, United Kingdom.1951 (-) Automobile designer and engineer Ferdinand Porsche dies of a stroke at the age of 75 in Stuttgart, Germany.1953 (-) Murderer Albert W. M. Kames is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.1969 (x) The Beatles play their last public concert, on the roof of Apple Records in London, United Kingdom.The impromptu concert is broken up by the police.1971 (-) Donald Edward is tortured and strangled by Dean Corll aka The Candyman, at the age of 15 in Houston, Mangum, Texas, USA.1972 (x) 35-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, is arrested and charged with child-abuse in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1972 (x) 13 Die in the Bloody Sunday events in Londonderry, Ireland.1977 (-) Christine Feund is shot dead by David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, in New York, New York, USA.1980 (-) Mary Maher is stabbed and choked by Gerald Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, in Daytona, Florida, USA.1985 (-) Rapist and murderer James David Raulerson is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in Florida, USA.1993 (x) Over 140 Die in train derailment in Darajani, Kenya.1994 (-) Writer Pierre François Marie Louis Boulle known for “Planet of the Apes”, dies at the age of 82 in Paris, France.1996 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Anatoly Onoprienko aka The Terminator, butchers a family of four in Ukraïne, Russia.1998 (-) Murderer Ricky Lee Sanderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 38 in North Carolina, USA.2002 (-) Double murderer Windell Broussard is executed by lethal injection at the age of 41 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2003 (-) Murderer Granville Riddgle is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (-) Triple murderer Christopher Swift is executed by lethal injection at the age of 31 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Sunday, January 29, 2012

1763 (-) Poet Louis Racine dies at the age of 70 in Paris, France.1843 (+) 25th president of the USA William McKinley is born in Niles, Ohio, USA.1845 (x) 36-year-old Writer Edgar Allen Poe 's poem "The Raven" is first published in the Evening Mirror in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.He was paid $9 for its publication.1860 (+) Writer Anton Pavlovitsch Chekhov is born in Taganrog, Russia.1880 (+) Filmmaker W.C. Fields is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1904 (-) Murderer H. D. Egbert is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in Oregon, USA.1905 (+) Artist Barnett Newman is born in New York, New York, USA.1905 (+) Winnie Ruth Judd aka The Trunk Murderess, is born in Oxford, Indiana, USA.1906 (x) 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeanne Weber aka l’Ogresse de la Goutte d’Or, is brought to trial for the strangling of 2 children, but found not guilty in Paris, France.1924 (+) Composer Luigi Nono is born in Venice, Italy.1930 (x) 33-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is sentenced to 3 months imprisonment and fined 200,- Fr for attempted fraud in Sens, Tribunal de Première Instance, France.1939 (+) Feminist writer Germaine Greer is born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1940 (x) Over 200 Die in train collision in Osaka, Japan.1941 (-) Dictator Ioannis Metaxas dies of a phlegmon of the pharynx at the age of 69 in Athens, Greece.1942 (+) Musician and murderess Claudine Georgette Longet is born in Paris, France.1945 (+) Actor Tom Selleck is born in Detroit, Michigan, USA.1954 (+) TV-host Oprah Winfrey is born in Kosciusko, Mississippi, USA.1958 (-) Edith Middleton dies of spontaneous human combustion in London, Pimlico, United Kingdom.1958 (-) Merle Collison is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 37 in Douglas, Wyoming, USA.Minutes later Starkweather and his girlfriend Caril Fugate are arrested.1959 (-) Patricia Vinico Berkman is stabbed to death by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 33 in Perth, Australia.1971 (x) A 20-year-old unidentified woman is assaulted and robbed by 19-year-old Serial Killer Gustaaf Wilfried André Van Eyken aka De Vampier van Muizen, in Mechelen, Raghenotunnel, Antwerp, Belgium.1973 (x) 34-year-old Michelangelo’s ‘Piëta’-attacker Laszlo Toth is committed to a psychiatric hospital in Rome, Italy.1974 (x) Serial Killer Zodiac sends an ‘Exorcist’-review to the San Francisco Chronicle Newspaper in San Francisco, California, USA.1979 (x) 16-year-old Murderess Brenda Spencer opens fire on a school because she didn't like mondays in San Diego, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.She killed the principal and the janitor and wounded 9 children.

1980 (-) Comedian and actor Jimmy James Francis Durante aka The Schnozzola, dies of pneumonia at the age of 87 in Santa Monica, California, USA.1985 (-) Millionaire Dieter Engelbrecht commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 46 in Germany.He imprisoned and sexually tortured his maid for a period of 466 days.1988 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, is sentenced to 40 years in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.2001 (-) Murderer Alexander Caruthers is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Stephen Wayne Anderson is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.2003 (-) Murderer Richard Eugene Dinkins is executed by lethal injection at the age of 40 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Musician and founder of The Beatles Eric Ronald Griffiths dies of pancreatic cancer at the age of 64 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.2005 (-) Mass murderess Priscilla Joyce Ford dies at the age of 75 in Reno, Nevada, USA .She was the only women on Nevada's Death Row.2006 (-) Video Artist Nam June Paik dies of natural causes at the age of 73 in Miami, Florida, USA.

Saturday, January 28, 2012

1547 (-) King of England Henry VIII dies of diabetes at the age of 55 in Whitehall, United Kingdom.1621 (-) 233rd Pope Paulus V originally Camillo Borghese, dies at the age of 70 in Rome, Italy.1706 (+) Printer and typographer John Baskerville is born in Wolverley, Worcestershire, United Kingdom.1768 (-) Composer John Wainwright dies at the age of 44 in Cheshire, United Kingdom.1788 (+) Poet George Gordon aka Lord Byron, is born in London, United Kingdom.1802 (-) Murderer Joseph Wall Esq. is executed by hanging in the United Kingdom.1829 (-) Serial Killer William Burke aka The Bodysnatcher, is executed by hanging at the age of 37 in Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom.A huge crowd showed up to see him hang.1841 (+) Explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley originally John Rowlands aka Bula Matari (Breaker of Rocks), is born in Denbigh, Wales, United Kingdom.1855 (+) Inventor of the calculating machine William Seward Burroughs I is born in Rochester, New York, USA.1887 (x) 26-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Myrta Z. Belknap as Henry Howard Holmes in Colorado, USA.1887 (+) Composer Arthur Rubinstein is born in Lodz, Poland.1890 (+) Murderer Robert Franklin Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, is born in Seattle, Washington, USA.1912 (+) Artist Jackson Paul Pollock is born in Cody, Wyoming, USA.1914 (+) Actor and murderer Tom Thomas Neal is born in Evanston, Illinois, USA.1924 (+) Artist Marcel Broodthaers is born in Brussels, Brabant, Belgium.1929 (+) Artist Claes Oldenburg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.1936 (+) Actor Alan Alda is born in New York, The Bronx, New York, USA.1936 (-) Richard Loeb aka The Perfect Murderer, is slashed to ribbons in the showers by Jimmie Day at the age of 30 in Stateville Prison, Illinois, USA.1939 (-) Writer William Butler Yeats dies at the age of 73 in Menton, Hôtel Idéal Séjour, Alpes-Maritimes, France.1945 (+) Musician Robert Wyatt-Ellidge is born in Bristol, United Kingdom.1948 (x) Over 250 Die in Joo Maru freighter collision in Japan.It collided with an abandoned mine.1948 (-) Commander of Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps Arthur Liebehenschel is executed by hanging at the age of 46 in Krakow, Poland.1949 (-) Rapist and murderer Charlie Pool is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Kentucky State Penitentiary, Eddyville, Kentucky, USA.1953 (-) Cop Killer Derek William Bentley is executed by hanging at the age of 19 in London, Wandsworth Prison, United Kingdom.1958 (-) Lauer and 46-year-old Clara Ward are shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 47 in Lincoln, 2843 24th Street, Nebraska, USA.1965 (+) Fifth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Anthony Sears is born in Wisconsin, USA.1974 (x) 32-year-old Tana Smith, 45-year-old Jane Holly, 69-year-old Vincent Wollin and 84-year-old John Bambic are shot dead by the Black Zebra Killers while 23-year-old Roxanne McMillan is shot and paralysed from the waist down in San Francisco, California, USA.

1976 (-) Artist Marcel Broodthaers dies at the age of 52 in Köln, NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany.1978 (x) 27-year-old Serial Killer Richard Trenton Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, is arrested in Sacramento, California, USA.Assorted human and animal organs are found in his refrigerator.1986 (x) US-astronauts 49-year-old Michael Smith, 36-year-old Judith Resnik, 35-year-old Ronald McNair, 39-year-old Ellison Onizuka, 41-year-old Gregory Jarvis, 37-year-old Christa MacAuliffe and 46-year-old Francis Scobee are killed in the explosion of their Challenger Spacecraft, just 1min 12 sec after take-off in Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.1996 (-) Poet Joseph Brodsky originally Iosif Aleksandrowitsch Brodsky, dies of a heart attack at the age of 55 in New York, New York, USA.2003 (-) Murderer Alva Eziel Curry is executed by lethal injection at the age of 32 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2004 (-) Murderer Billy Frank Vickers is executed by lethal injection at the age of 58 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, commits suicide by an overdose of medication at the age of 32 in Paris XIV, France.She played a violent murderess in the movie "Baise-Moi".2010 (-) Sadist Murderer Peter Carlier commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 61 in Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium.He spent 30 years in prison for the murder of his 21-year-old neighbour girl.

Friday, January 27, 2012

1596 (-) Sea Captain, slaver and pirate Sir Francis Drake aka El Draque, dies of dysentery at the age of 56 in Portobelo, Colón, Panama.1756 (+) Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is born in Salzburg, Austria.1832 (+) Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known for “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, is born in Daresbury, Cheshire, United Kingdom.1836 (+) Writer Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch is born in Lemberg, Austria.1874 (+) Sing-Sing Prison Chief Executioner Robert Greene Elliott is born in Hamlin, New York, USA.1892 (+) Composer Mitya Stillman is born in Russia.1901 (-) Composer Giuseppe Verdi dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Milan, Italy.1906 (+) Actress Starr Wyman Faithfull aka The Drowned Girl, is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1928 (-) Murderer Daniel Driscoll is executed by hanging in Cardiff Prison, United Kingdom.1928 (-) Murderer Edward Rowlands is executed by hanging in Cardiff Prison, United Kingdom.1944 (+) Musician Kevin Coyne is born in Derby, United Kingdom.1945 (x) Auschwitz-KZ is liberated by the Russian army in Poland.1949 (x) Over 600 Die in Taiping steamer collision with collier in China.1958 (-) August Meyer is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 70 in Bennet, Meyer Farm, Nebraska, USA.1958 (-) Robert Jensen is shot dead by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 17 in Bennet, Schoolhouse, Nebraska, USA.1963 (-) John Sturkey is shot dead by Eric Edgar Cooke aka The Australian Nightmare, at the age of 19 in Perth, Cottelsoe and Nedlands, Australia.Nicholas August, Roweena Reeves and Brian Weir are also shot and woonded in separate events on the same night.

1967 (x) US-astronauts 40-year-old Gus Grisson, 33-year-old Edward H. White and 31-year-old Roger B. Chaffee are burned alive in their Apollo/Saturn 204 in John F. Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.They were the astronauts selected for the first manned Apollo program mission.1972 (-) Musician Mahalia Jackson dies of a heart attack at the age of 60 in Evergreen Park, Illinois, USA.1977 (-) Lawrence Merrick is shot dead by persons unknown in Los Angeles, the Merrick Studio Academy of Dramatic Arts, California, USA.He was working on a documentary about Charles Manson.1977 (x) 27-year-old Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Brigitte Margret Ida Mohnhaupt is released from prison in Germany.1978 (-) Evelyn Miroth is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 38 in Sacramento, Merrywood Drive 3207, California, USA.In the same event he also killed 6-year-old Jason Miroth and 22-months-old David Ferreira. He then took the baby’s body home, decapitated it and ate parts of its brains before dumping it in a cardboard box.1981 (x) 443 Die in Tamponas 2 Ocean Liner fire in the Java Sea.1982 (-) An unidentified woman is raped and strangled by Lucas & Toole aka The Hand of Death, in Plainview, Texas, USA.1983 (-) Actor and filmmaker Louis De Funès aka FuFu, dies of a heart attack at the age of 68 in Nantes, France.1984 (x) 25-year-old Musician Michael Joseph Jackson aka The King of Pop, suffers second and third degree burns on his scalp during the filming of a Pepsi commercial in Los Angeles, Shrine Auditorium, California, USA.1992 (-) Wife of Nazi Youth Leader Baldur von Schirach, Henriette “Henny” von Schirach originally Henriette Hoffmann, dies at the age of 79 in München, Germany.2000 (-) Double murderer James Walter Moreland is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (x) Start of the trial against Murderer Robert Frederick Glass for the consensual murder of Sharon Lopatka in North Carolina, USA.He had fulfilled her wish to be tortured and strangled to death.2008 (-) Second President of Indonesia Hadji Muhammad Suharto dies of a sepsis infection and haemoglobin drop at the age of 86 in Jakarta, Pertamina hospital, Indonesia.2009 (-) Writer John Updike dies of lung cancer at the age of 76 in Danvers, Massachusetts, USA.2010 (-) Writer Jerome David Salinger dies of natural causes at the age of 91 in Comish, New Hampshire, USA.

Thursday, January 26, 2012

1340 (x) 27-year-old King of England Edward III is declared King of France.1826 (-) Artist Théodore Géricault dies of tuberculosis at the age of 34 in Paris, France.1880 (+) General Douglas MacArthur is born in Little Rock, Arkansas, USA.1918 (+) Nationalist leader Nicolae Ceaucescu aka The Genius of the Carpathians, is born in Scornicesti, Romania.1925 (+) Actor Paul Leonard Newman is born in Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA.1928 (+) Filmmaker Roger Vadim originally Roger Vladimir Piemiannikov, is born in Paris, France.

1932 (-) Chewing gum industrialist William Jr. Wrigley dies at the age of 70 in Phoenix, Arizona, USA.1938 (x) The dismembered body of 41-year-old Florence Polillo is found, she’s the third victim of Serial Killer The Mad Butcher of Cleveland in Cleveland, 2315 East 20th Street, Ohio, USA.1944 (+) Political Activist Angela Yvonne Davis is born in Birmingham, Alabama, USA.1947 (+) Actor Patrick Dewaere is born in Saint-Brieuc, France.1948 (x) 12 die due to poisoning during a bank-robbery, presumably by 55-year-old Mass-Murderer Sadamichi Hirasawa aka Jiro Yamaguchi, in Tokio, Imperial Bank, Japan.He posed as a health officer, and ordered16 employees to drink some 'dysentery medicine, what was actually potassium cyanide.1955 (+) Musician Eddie Edward Lodewijk Van Halen is born in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.1958 (+) Murderer John Hardy Rose is born in North Carolina, USA.1958 (x) 167 Die in Nankai Maru capsizing in Awaji Island, Japan.1962 (-) Gangster Charlie Luciano originally Salvatore Lucania aka Lucky Luciano, dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Napoli, Capodicine Airport, Italy.He was meeting a scriptwriter who was about to write his life as a film.1963 (x) 15-year-old Douglas Godfrey shoots his mother in a self-created ‘sniper’ attack in Bloomfield township, Michigan, USA.1965 (x) 19-year-old Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is arrested for auto-theft in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.1965 (x) Hindi becomes the official language in India.1966 (x) The Beaumont Children 9-year-old Jane Nartare, 7-year-old Arnna Kathleen and 4-year-old Grant Ellis collectively disappear in Adelaide, Gleneig Beach, South Australia, Australia.It remains Australia's most infamous cold case.1968 (x) 69 Die in Dakar submarine wrecking in the Mediterranean Sea.1968 (-) Linda Slawson is sexually assaulted and beaten to death by Jerry Brudos aka The Lust Killer, at the age of 19 in Portland, Oregon, USA.1971 (x) 36-year-old Family leader Charles Miles Manson is found guilty of the Tate/LaBianca murders in Los Angeles, California, USA.1974 (x) The RAF aka Rote Armee Fraktion - Aufbauorganisation calls itself the successor of the Baader-Meinhof-Gruppe in Germany.1979 (-) Philantropist, politician and businessman Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Manhattan, New York, USA.1983 (-) Stephen Sinclair Guild is strangled by Dennis Nilsen aka Killing For Company, at the age of 20 in London, United Kingdom.1991 (x) 31-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Did Dillinger Die Right There and Then?" in Leuven, Galerie Transit, Brabant, Belgium.1996 (-) Child rapist and murderer John Albert Taylor is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Martin S. Vega is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (-) Science Fiction writer Alfred Elton Van Vogt dies at the age of 87 in Los Angeles, California, USA.2008 (-) Son of Marlon, Christian Brando dies of pneumonia at the age of 49 in Los Angeles, Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center , California, USA.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

1533 (x) 41-year-old King of England Henry VIII marries his second wife Anne Boleyn in London, United Kingdom.1874 (+) Writer William Somerset Maugham is born in Paris, France.1882 (+) Writer Virginia Adeline Woolf is born in London, United Kingdom.1904 (x) 179 Die in coal-mine explosion in Cheswick, United Kingdom.1913 (+) Composer Witold Lutoslawski is born in Warsaw, Poland.1917 (+) Theoretical chemist Ilya Prigogine is born in Moscow, Russia.1923 (+) Psychiatric patient and artist Shirley Ardell Mason aka Sybil (Isabel Dorsett), is born in Dodge Center, Minnesota, USA.1942 (x) Thailand declares war to the USA and United Kingdom .1943 (-) Actor Spencer Charters commits suicide by coal-monoxide poisoning combined with sleeping tablets at the age of 67 in Hollywood, California, USA.1943 (+) Filmmaker Tobe Hooper known for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, is born in Austin, Texas, USA.1944 (+) Model, actress and fashion designer Anita Pallenberg is born in Rome, Italy.1947 (-) Gangster Al Alphonse Capone dies of paresis of the brain due to syphilis at the age of 48 in Palm Island, Florida, USA.1950 (+) Child murderer Melvin Wayne White is born in Texas, USA.1965 (-) Persian prime minister Ali Mansoer dies due to injuries suffered in an assault on January 21st in Iran.1973 (-) James Ralph, 21-year-old Joan, 9-year-old David Hughes, 4-year-old Damon Francis Gianera are shot dead by Herbert Mullin in Santa Cruz West Side, Happy Valley, California, USA.1975 (x) Over 100 Die in Passenger Ferry shipwreck in Dacca, India.1979 (-) An unidentified woman dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 76 in Hutton-Le-Hole, Yorkshire, United Kingdom.1983 (x) 69-year-old Nazi leader Klaus Barbie aka The Butcher of Lyon, is arrested and expelled to France in La Paz, Bolivia.1984 (x) 508 Die in oil-pipeline explosion in Cubato, Brazil.1985 (-) General René Audran is shot dead by Action Directe in Paris, France.1990 (-) Actress Ava Lavinia Gardner dies of pneumonia at the age of 67 in Westminster, United Kingdom.1996 (-) Double murderer Billy Bailey is executed by hanging at the age of 49 in Smyrna, Delaware, USA.He was the last man to be hanged in the USA. For his last meal he had a well-done steak, a baked potato with sour cream and butter, buttered rolls, peas and vanilla ice cream.2000 (-) Murderer Glen Charles McGinnis is executed by lethal injection at the age of 27 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Murderer Troy Albert Kunkle is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (x) 258 Die in Mandher Devi temple stampede in Mandhradevi, India.2006 (-) Triple murderer Marion Butler Dudley is executed by lethal injection at the age of 33 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2006 (-) Pornographic actress Anna Malle originally Hotop, dies in a car crash, not wearing a seat belt at the age of 38 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

2010 (-) War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is executed by hanging at the age of 68 in Iraq.

Tuesday, January 24, 2012

41 (-) Emperor Gaius Caesar Augustus Germanicus Caligula is assassinated by his Praetorian Guards at the age of 28 in Rome, Italy.76 (+) Roman Emperor Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus is born in Rome, Italy.1705 (+) Soprano Castrato Farinelli originally Carlo Maria Broschi, is born in Andria, Italy.1846 (-) Murderess Elisabeth Van Valkenburgh is executed by hanging in Fulton, New York, USA.1920 (-) Artist Amadeo Clemente Modigliani dies of tubercular meningitis due to execessive alcohol and drug abuse at the age of 35 in Paris, France.1921 (-) Eventual Murderer Morris Stein aka Stinie Morrison, dies of hungerstriking in claiming his innocence in a murder trial in Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.1940 (+) Performance artist Vito Acconci is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.1943 (+) Actress Sharon Tate is born in Dallas, Texas, USA.1944 (+) Countertenor Klaus Nomi originally Klaus Sperber, is born in Immenstadt, Bavaria, Germany.1948 (-) Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is executed by hanging at the age of 36 in Kraków, Poland.1949 (+) Actor John Belushi is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1952 (+) SPK and Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Siegfried Hausner is born in Selb, Germany.1961 (+) Actress Natassja Kinski is born in Berlin, Germany.1961 (x) A B-52 Stratofortress bomber carrying two 24-megaton H-bombs breaks up in mid-air in Goldsboro, North Carolina, USA.One weapon nearly detonates; its uranium core is still lost.1965 (-) Politician Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill dies of a stroke at the age of 90 in London, United Kingdom.1966 (+) Seventeenth victim of Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, Joseph Bradehoft is born in Wisconsin, USA.1966 (x) 117 Die in Air India Boeing 707 crash in Mont Blanc region, France.1978 (-) Nazi doctor at Ravensbrück concentration camp Herta Oberheuser dies at the age of 66 in Linz am Rhein, Germany.1983 (-) Ervin Gibson is beaten and stabbed to death by Larry Eyler aka The Leather-Boy Killer, at the age of 16 in Lake Forest, Illinois, USA.1985 (x) 70-year-old Nazi-executioner Walter Reder aka The Slaughterer of Marzabotto, is released from prison in Italy.1986 (-) Founder of the Church of Scientology L. Ron Lafayette Ronald Hubbard dies of a stroke at the age of 74 in San Luis Obispo County, California, USA.

1989 (-) Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 42 in Starke, Raiford State Prison, Florida, USA.1989 (x) Raphael’s ‘La Madonna di Foligno’ is attacked with a fire-bomb by an unidentified wheelchair-patient in Rome, Vatican Museum, Italy.1991 (-) Pascale Escarfail is raped and stabbed to death by Guy Georges aka Le Tueur de la Bastille, in Paris, France.1992 (-) Cop Killer Ricky Ray Rector is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Arkansas, USA.It took medical staff more than 50 minutes to find a suitable vein in Rector's arm. Witnesses were not permitted to view this scene, but reported hearing Rector's loud moans throughout the process. During the ordeal, Rector (who suffered serious brain damage from a lobotomy) tried to help the medical personal find a vein.1995 (-) Murderer Kermit Smith is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Raleigh State Prison, North Carolina, USA.He is one of only a few white criminals to have been executed for murdering a black victim.1995 (-) Murderer Clifton Russell is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2000 (-) Murderer Billy George Jr. Hughes is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Monday, January 23, 2012

1783 (+) Writer Stendhal originally Marie-Henri Beyle, is born in Grenoble, France.1803 (-) Brewer, visionary and philantropist Arthur Guinness dies at the age of 77 in Beaumont, Kildare, Ireland.1832 (+) Artist Edouard Manet is born in Paris, 5 Rue des Petits-Augustins, France.1898 (+) Filmmaker Sergeï Mikhailovich Eisenstein is born in Riga, Latvia, Russia.1912 (x) Blacks Belle Hathaway, John Moore, Eugene Hamming and Dusty Cruthfield are lynched by hanging and riddled with gunfire by some 100 white men in Hamilton, Georgia, USA.1923 (x) The furniture, including the stove, of 53-year-old Serial Killer Henri Desiré Landru aka The Bluebeard Murderer, is sold at a public auction in Versailles, France.1928 (+) Actress Jeanne Moreau is born in Paris, France.

1931 (-) Ballerina Anna Pavlovna Matveïevna Pavlova known for The Dying Swan, dies of pleurisy at the age of 48 in Den Haag, the Netherlands.1932 (+) Matricider Jack Gilbert Graham is born in Denver, Colorado, USA.1944 (-) Artist Edvard Munch dies at the age of 80 in Ekerly, Norway.1947 (-) Artist Pierre Bonnard dies at the age of 80 in Le Cannet, Alpes-Maritimes, France.1948 (-) Murderer Wardell H. Henderson is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Oregon, USA.1969 (-) Therèse Adam is beaten and shot dead by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, at the age of 49 in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue de Frères Péraux, France.1973 (-) Alexandros Onassis dies in a plane-crash at the age of 24 in Athens, Ellinikon International Airport, Greece.1975 (x) Bomb attack by the Radical Left Organisation the Weathermen on the Department of Defense offices in Oakland, California, USA.1976 (-) Physician and cosmonaut Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin dies of natural causes at the age of 44 in the USSR.1978 (-) Theresa Wallin is shot dead and eviscerated by Richard Chase aka The Vampire of Sacramento, at the age of 22 in Sacramento, Tioga Way 2630, California, USA.1986 (-) Artist Joseph Heinrich Beuys dies of heart-failure at the age of 64 in Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.1989 (x) Over 150 Die in Sol de Oro goldmine explosion in Ica, Peru.1989 (-) Artist Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali dies of heart failure at the age of 84 in Figueras, Catalonia, Spain.1997 (-) Spree Killer Randy Greenawalt is executed by lethal injection at the age of 47 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.His last meal request was a cheeseburger, fries and coffee with milk. "Don't worry about me, I'll be fine," were his last words. 1997 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Andonis Daglis aka The Athens Ripper, is found guilty of raping and murdering three prostitutes and cutting them up with a chain saw in Athens, Greece.He is sentenced to 13 life sentences. 2002 (-) Sociologist Pierre Bourdieu dies at the age of 71 in Paris, France.2004 (-) Photographer Helmut Newton originally Neustädter, dies of a heart attack at the age of 83 in West Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, Chateau Marmont, California, USA.2005 (-) TV-host Johnny Carson dies of emphysema at the age of 79 in Malibu, California, USA.

Sunday, January 22, 2012

1849 (+) Writer August Johann Strindberg is born in Stockholm, Sweden.1869 (+) Influencial Monk Grigory Jefimovitsch Novitsch Rasputin aka The Mad Monk, is born in Pokrovskoye, Siberia, Russia.1875 (+) Pioneer filmmaker David Wark Llewelyn Griffith is born in Crestwood, Kentucky, USA.1879 (+) Artist Francis Picabia is born in Feydieu, Gironde, France.1892 (+) Engineer and designer of the Mirage-Jet Marcel Bloch Dassault is born in Paris, France.1901 (-) Queen Alexandrina Victoria dies of declining health at the age of 81 in Osborne House, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.Her death marks the end of the Victorian Age.1922 (-) 258th pope Benedictus XV originally Giacomo Battista Marquis Della Chiesa, dies at the age of 67 in Rome, Vatican City, Italy.1925 (-) Murderer Nichol Ferranti is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1930 (-) Nora Lake dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 42 in Kerhonkson, New York, USA.1931 (+) Serial Killer Daniel Camargo Barboza aka The Beast of Ecuador and Monster of Charquito, is born in Anolaima, Colombia.1931 (+) Musician Sam Cooke is born in Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA.1934 (+) Actor Bill Wilfred Bailey Bixby is born in San Francisco, California, USA.1936 (+) Lawyer and Rote Armee Fraktion founding member Horst Mahler is born in Haynau, Silesia, Germany.1937 (+) Writer Joseph Wambaugh is born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.1940 (+) Actor John Hurt is born in Chesterfield, United Kingdom.1940 (+) ShirelleAddie ‘Micki’ Harris is born in Passiac, New Jersey, USA.1946 (+) Impresario and band manager Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren is born in London, Stoke Newington, United Kingdom.1957 (x) 53-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA.He was charged with planting over 30 bombs.1960 (x) The first atomic bomb-test by France.1960 (+) INXS lead-singer Michael Hutchence is born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.1963 (-) Notorious bandit and murderer Teofilo Rojas aka Sparks, dies in mysterious circumstances.He was credited with 592 up to 3500 murders.1969 (x) USSR-astronauts Sjalatov, Jelisejev, Kroenov and Volynov, who have just returned with their Soyoez 4 and 5 spacecrafts are attacked by an unidentified young man during an official parade in Moscow, Russia.1973 (-) 36th president of the USA Lyndon Baines Johnson dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in San Antonio, Texas, USA.1973 (x) 176 pilgrims Die in Boeing 707 crash in Kano Airport, Nigeria.1980 (x) 58-year-old Physicist, dissident and Human Rights activist Andrei Dmitrievitsch Sakharov is arrested by the KGB and expelled to Gorki in Russia.1983 (x) 42-year-old Serial Killer Richard Fran Biegenwald and Dherran Fitzgerald are arrested in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA.

1987 (-) Pennsylvania Treasurer Budd Dwyer commits suicide by shooting himself in the mouth with a pistol in front of cameras at a news conference at the age of 47 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA.He was about to being sentenced for taking a $300,000 kickback.1994 (-) Actor Telly Aristoteles Savalas dies of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the age of 72 in Universal City, California, USA.2003 (-) Murderer Robert Andrew Lookingbill is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2008 (-) Actor Heath Andrew Ledger dies of acute intoxication by the combined effects of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam and doxylamine at the age of 28 in New York City, New York, USA.

Saturday, January 21, 2012

1793 (-) King Louis XVI aka Louis-Auguste de France, is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 38 in Paris, France.1842 (+) Notorious Cannibal Alfred G. “Alferd” Packer is born in Deer Creek, Jefferson County, Colorado, USA.1855 (+) Inventor and designer John Moses Browning is born in Ogden, Utah, USA.1896 (+) Younger sister of Reichsführer Adolf Hitler, Paula Hitler is born in Hafeld, Austria.1899 (+) General Practitioner and suspected Serial Killer John Bodkin Adams is born in Randalstown, Ireland.1905 (+) Fashion designer Christian Dior is born in Granville, France.1921 (+) Spree Killer Howard Barton Unruh is born in East Camden, New Jersey, USA.1922 (+) Actor Telly Aristoteles Savalas is born in Garden City, New York, USA.1924 (-) Bolsjevist leader Vladimir Ilyitsch Lenin dies of sclerosis of the cerebral arteries at the age of 53 in Gorky, Russia.1925 (+) Actor Benny Hill is born in Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom.1931 (-) Film star Alma Rubens commits suicide by a drug-overdose after being arrested for smuggling drugs in Hollywood, California, USA.1938 (+) Disc Jockey Robert Weston Smith aka Wolfman Jack, is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

1938 (-) Film pioneer Georges Meliès dies at the age of 76 in Paris, France.1941 (+) Musician Plàcido Domingo is born in Madrid, Spain.1944 (+) Murderer and literary talent Jack Henry Abbott known for The Belly of the Beast, is born in Oscoda, Michigan, USA.1950 (-) Writer George Orwell originally Eric Arthur Blair, dies of a lung-bleeding at the age of 46 in London, United Kingdom.1950 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Silke Maier-Witt is born in Nagold, Germany.1952 (+) Multiple Murderer Raymond Lee Stewart is born in Burlington, North Carolina, USA.1953 (+) Triple murderer Pierre Dale Selby aka The Hi-Fi Murderer, is born in Trinidad.1959 (-) Filmmaker Cecil Blount DeMille dies of heart failure at the age of 77 in Hollywood, California, USA.1960 (x) Over 400 Die in coal-mine explosion in Coalbrook, South Africa.Many were trapped underground due to a cave-in.1961 (-) Writer Blaise Cendrars originally Frédéric Louis Sauser, dies of a stroke at the age of 73 in Paris, France.1963 (x) 37-year-old Acid Murderer Dr. Geza De Kaplany is sentenced to life-imprisonment for soaking his wife in nitric acid in San José, California, USA.1965 (-) Lucienne Verhoeven-Bourlard is strangled by Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, at the age of 27 in Antwerpen, Gloriantlaan, Antwerp, Belgium.1968 (x) A US B52-bomber with 4 nuclear bombs aboard crashes in Thule, Greenland.1978 (-) Yvonne Pearson is murdered by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 22 in the United Kingdom.1980 (x) Start of the trial against 33-year-old Serial Killer Ted Theodore Robert Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, for the murder of Kimberley Leach in Orlando, Florida, USA.1985 (x) 71 Die in L118 Elektra crash in Reno, USA.1997 (-) Elvis Impresario Tom Thomas Andrew Parker originally Andreas Cornelis ‘Dries’ van Kuijk aka Colonel Tom Parker, dies of a stroke at the age of 87 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.1998 (-) Double Murderer Jose Jesus Ceja is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in State Prison, Florence, Arizona, USA.His last meal request were two chili beef burritos, two cans of Coke Classic and a slice of cherry pie. 1998 (-) Murderer Lloyd Wayne Hampton is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Springfield State Penitentiary, Illinois, USA.2000 (-) Multiple murderer Larry Keith Robison is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2002 (-) Singer, songwriter and actress Peggy Lee originally Norma Deloris Egstrom, dies of complications from diabetes and a heart attack at the age of 81 in Bel Air, California, USA.2004 (-) Murderer Kevin Lee Zimmerman is executed by lethal injection at the age of 42 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Friday, January 20, 2012

1774 (-) Composer Florian Leopold Gassmann dies of long-term consequences of an accident at the age of 44 in Vienna, Austria.1775 (+) Physicist André-Marie Ampère is born in Lyon, St. Nizier, France.1896 (+) Comedian and actor George Burns is born in New York City, New York, USA.1910 (+) Writer and naturalist Joy Adamson originally Friederike Victoria Gessner aka Born Free, is born in Troppau, Silesia, Austria.1913 (-) Axe-murderer John Schild is executed by hanging in Berks City, Pennsylvania, USA.1920 (+) Filmmaker Frederico Fellini is born in Rimini, Italy.1930 (+) Astronaut Edwin Eugene Aldrin aka Buzz, is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.1936 (-) King of England George V originally George Frederick Ernest Albert, dies of a cold at the age of 70 in Sandringham House, Norfolk, United Kingdom.Physician Lord Dawson of Penn, hastened the King's end by giving him a lethal injection of cocaine and morphine.1939 (-) Murderer LeRoy Hershel McCarthy is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 27 in Salem State Penitentiary, Oregon, USA.It was the first execution in the Gas Chamber in Oregon.1946 (+) Filmmaker David Keith Lynch is born in Missoula, Montana, USA.1959 (+) Serial Killer Joel David Rifkin is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.1960 (x) 51-year-old Richard Bugdalle aka The Bully of Sachsenhausen, is convicted to 16 terms of life imprisonment in München, Germany.1965 (-) The Dj who named Rock’n’Roll Alan Albert James Freed dies of bleeding esophageal varices and cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 43 in Palm Springs, California, USA.1968 (x) 34-year-old Filmmaker Roman Polanski originally Raymond Roman Liebling, marries actress Sharon Tate in London, United Kingdom.1969 (+) Miss Hungary Csilla Andrea Molnar is born in Kaposvar, Hungary.1975 (-) Emily Jackson is hammered and stabbed 52 times with a Phillips screwdriver by Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, at the age of 42 in Leeds, Manor Street, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom.1982 (x) Officially 66 (but rumoured 340) Die in soccer riot during the game Spartak Moscow-Haarlem in Russia.

1984 (-) Actor and swim-champion Johnny Weismuller originally Johann Peter Weißmüller aka Tarzan, dies of pulmonary edema at the age of 79 in Acapulco, in a mental hospital, Mexico.1985 (x) An unidentified member of the German Stadtguerilla group Rote Armee Fraktion is killed in a bomb-attack on the offices of Audit in Stuttgart, Germany.1987 (-) Murderer Ramon Hernandez is executed by lethal injection at the age of 44 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1988 (x) 26-year-old Serial Killer Timothy Wilson Spencer aka The Southside Strangler, is arrested on a charge of burglary in Richmond, Virginia, USA.1992 (x) 87 Die in Air Inter Light 148 Airbus A-300 crash in Strasbourg, France.1993 (-) Actress Audrey Hepburn originally Audrey Kathleen Ruston, dies of appendiceal cancer at the age of 63 in Tolochenaz, Vaud, Switzerland.1997 (-) Second oldest survivor of the Titanic shipwreck, Edith Eileen Haisman originally Brown, dies of natural causes at the age of 100 in Southampton, United Kingdom.1999 (-) Double Murderer Mark Arlo Sheppard is executed by lethal injection in Jarrat Prison, Virginia, USA.2000 (-) Murderer David Hicks is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Thursday, January 19, 2012

1809 (+) Writer Edgar Allen Poe is born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.1839 (+) Artist Paul Cézanne is born in Aix-en-Provence, France.1866 (-) Murderess Martha Grinder aka The American Borgia, is executed by hanging at the age of 50 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.1866 (-) Murderer Ernest Wa-Tee-Cha is executed by hanging in Lawrence, Kansas, USA.1870 (-) Serial Killer Jean-Baptiste Troppmann is executed by the Guillotine at the age of 21 in Paris, Roquette Prison, France.1879 (+) Writer and revolutionary terrorist Boris Viktorovich Savinkov is born in Kharkov, Russia.1916 (+) Artist, writer and inventor of the cut-up technique, Brion Gysin is born in London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.1921 (+) Writer Patricia Highsmith is born in Fort Worth, Texas, USA.1922 (+) Filmmaker Jerzy Kawalerowicz is born in Gwozdziec, Poland.1933 (-) Murderer Alexander Nunes is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1935 (+) Actress Tippi Nathalie Kay Hedren is born in New Ulm, Minnesota, USA.1938 (+) Musician Phil Philip Everly is born in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1943 (+) Musician Janis Lyn Joplin is born in Port Arthur, Texas, USA.1946 (+) Singer-songwriter and actress Dolly Rebecca Parton is born in Sevierville, Tennessee, USA.1947 (x) 392 Die in Himera Ocean liner hitting a forgotten WWII mine in Athens, Greece.1954 (+) Photographer Cindy Sherman is born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, USA.1958 (-) Marion Bartlett is shot, stabbed and choked to death by Charles Starkweather aka Little Red, at the age of 57 in Lincoln, 924 Belmont Avenue, Nebraska, USA.1962 (x) 20-year-old Mass murderer Richard Franklin Speck aka Born to Raise Hell, marries Shirley Annette Malone in Dallas, Texas, USA.1970 (-) Régis Tall commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 17 in Lille, Lycée Gaston Berger, France.1970 (-) Robert Gerekens commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 18 in Lille, Lycée Faidherbe, France.1973 (+) Actress Karen Lancaume originally Karine Bach, is born in Lyon, France.1981 (-) Mass Murderer Alvin King commits suicide by hanging at the age of 48 in Dangerfield, town jail, Texas, USA.He used strips torn from his towel to make the hanging rope.1981 (-) Photographer Francesca Woodman commits suicide by jumping out of a window at the age of 22 in New York, New York, USA.1982 (-) Leader of the ‘Rote Kapelle’ spy-ring Leopold Trepper dies at the age of 77 in Jerusalem, Israël.

1998 (-) Musician Carl Lee Perkins aka Blue Suede Shoes, dies of heart failure at the age of 65 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA.He suffered 3 heart-attacks in less than 2 months.2006 (-) Musician Wilson Pickett dies of a heart attack at the age of 64 in Ashburn, Virginia, USA.2007 (-) Singer-songwiter Denny Dennis Gerrard Stephen Doherty dies at the age of 66 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.He was a founding member of the 'Mamas and the Papas'.

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

1574 (-) Hermit and cannibalistic murderer Gilles Garnier aka The Werewolf of Dole, is executed by burning at the stake in Dole, France.He stalked and murdered at least four children between the ages of 9 and 12.1803 (-) Wife- and child-murderer George Forster is executed by hanging in London, Newgate Prison, United Kingdom.Shortly after the execution his body was taken to a nearby house where it was used in an experiment by Italian scientist Giovanni Aldini. "On the first application of the process to the face, the jaws of the deceased criminal began to quiver, and the adjoining muscles were horribly contorted, and one eye was actually opened. In the subsequent part of the process the right hand was raised and clenched, and the legs and thighs were set in motion."1878 (x) 32-year-old Cannibal Adolph Louis Luetgert aka The Sausage King, marries 31-year-old Louisa Bicknese in Chicago, Illinois, USA.1890 (-) Duke of Aosta and King of Spain Amadeus I dies at the age of 44 in Aosta, Italy.1892 (+) Actor Oliver Norvell Hardy is born in Harlem, Georgia, USA.1904 (+) Actor Cary Grant is born in Bristol, Horfield, 15 Hughenden Road, United Kingdom.1909 (-) Charlie Von Dahmer is shot dead by Robert Stroud aka The Birdman of Alcatraz, in Juneau, Alaska, USA.1913 (+) Actor and comedian Danny Kaye is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1925 (+) Philosopher Gilles Deleuze is born in Paris, France.1929 (x) 4 policemen are killed by 33-year-old Anarchist and Mass Cop Killer IJe Wijkstra in Groningen, Doezum, the Netherlands.1932 (+) Writer and Agnostic Mystic Robert Anton Edward Wilson is born in Brooklyn, New York, New York, USA.1936 (-) Writer and journalist Joseph Rudyard Kipling dies at the age of 70 in London, United Kingdom.1946 (-) Murderer Joseph Wessel is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Walla Walla Prison, Washington, USA.1952 (+) Tamil Bandit Koose Muniswamy Veerappan is born in Gopinatham, Karnataka, India.1955 (+) Actor Kevin Costner is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1973 (x) 39-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is sentenced to 25 terms of life imprisonment for 25 counts of first degree murder in Fairfield, California, USA.1977 (x) 90 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Sydney, Australia.1981 (-) Shari Hull is shot dead after being sexually assaulted by Randy Woodfield aka The I-5 Killer, at the age of 20 in Salem, TransAmerica Title Building, Oregon, USA.1982 (x) 4 US stunt-pilots crash with their Thunderbird Jets in the Nevada Desert, USA.1984 (+) Mass murderer Cho Seung-Hui aka Ismail Ax aka the School Shooter, is born in Seoul, South Korea.1987 (-) Jacquelin Askins is abducted and held imprisoned by Gary Heidnik aka The Cellar of Horror Murderer, at the age of 18 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.She survived.2000 (-) Murderer Spencer Cory Goodman is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.He kidnapped and brutally killed Cecile Ham, wife of Bill Ham, manager and image-maker of ZZ Top in 1991.2001 (-) Murderer Alvin Uriah III Goodwin is executed by lethal injection at the age of 37 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2010 (x) 92 Die in TAME Flight 120 Boeing 727-100 crash in the Andes, Colombia.2010 (x) 52-year-old Attacker of Pope John Paul II, Mehmet Ali Agca is released from prison for the murder of journalist Abdi Ipecki in 1979 in Turkey.He spent 29 years behind bars, 19 in Italy and 10 in Turkey.

2010 (-) Singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle known for “Complainte pour Ste Catherine”, dies of clear cell sarcoma at the age of 63 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

1504 (+) 225th Pope St. Pius V originally Michele Ghisleri, is born in Bosco, Italy.1528 (+) Queen of Navarra Jeanne d’Albret is born in Paris, France.1706 (+) Founding Father of the United States of America and inventor of the lightning rod and the glass armonica Benjamin Franklin is born in Boston, Milk Street, Massachusetts, USA.1751 (-) Composer Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni dies of diabetes at the age of 79 in Venezia, Italy.1874 (-) Siamese twin Chang and Eng Bunker dies of a stroke due to pneumonia, and the other one of fear, at the age of 62 in Mount Airy, North Carolina, USA.They were connected through a 15cm thick navelstring. Dying of fear is characterised by an overfull-bladder and lifted right testicle.1893 (-) 19th president of the USA Rutherford Birchard Hayes dies of a heart attack at the age of 70 in Fremont, Ohio, USA.1894 (x) 33-year-old America’s first Serial Killer Herman Webster Mudgett aka The Torture Doctor, marries Georgiana Yoke as Henry Mansfield Howard in Denver, Colorado, USA.1897 (+) Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is born in Auxerre, 100 Rue de Paris, Yonne, France.1899 (+) Gangster Al Alphonse Capone is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1899 (+) Writer Nevil Shute originally Nevil Norway, is born in London, United Kingdom.1919 (x) 460 Die in Chaonia Steamer shipwreck in the Strait of Messina.1928 (+) Hairdresser Vidal Sassoon is born in London, United Kingdom.1933 (+) Singer and actress Dalida is born in Caïro, Egypt.1942 (+) World Heavyweight Boxing Champion Muhammed Ali is born in Louisville, Kentucky, USA.1943 (+) Symbionese Liberation Army member Wendy Masako Yoshimura is born in Manzanar Internment Camp for Japanese Americans , California, USA.1944 (+) Singer and actress Françoise Madeleine Hardy is born in Paris 9th, France.1947 (-) Margot M. is killed by Rudolf Pleil aka Der Großten Todmacher, at the age of 20 in Niedersachsen, Germany.1950 (x) 11 Thieves steal $1.218.211,29 in cash, and over $1.5-million in checks, money orders and other securities from the Brinks Building Offices in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.Although all of the gangsters were captured and put on trial only 58.000 Dollars were ever recovered. The rest is fabled to be hidden in the hills north of Grand Rapids, Minnesota.1956 (x) 22-year-old Serial Killer Juan Vellejo Corona aka The Machete Murderer, is committed to DeWitt State Hospital, diagnosed with schizophrenia and paranoia in Auburn, California, USA.During his treatment he received 23 electroshocks in three months time.1961 (-) Patrice Lumumba is assasinated while imprisoned by Joseph Kasavubu at the age of 35 in Katanga, Belgian Congo.1966 (x) A US-bomber with 4 Hydrogen-bombs aboard crashes into the sea in Palomares, Spain.1975 (x) 38-year-old Serial Killer Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, and his 13-year-old son Michael are arrested and charged with rape, robbery and murder in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

1977 (-) Spree Killer Gary Mark Gilmore aka The Executioner’s Song, is executed by the Firing Squad at the age of 36 in Draper State Prison, Utah, USA.He gained international notoriety for demanding that his death sentence be fulfilled. His ashes were scattered from an airplane over Spanish Fork, Utah.1978 (x) 25-year-old Murderer Larry Craig Green aka The Black Zebra Killer, is stabbed by a white inmate in San Quentin Prison, California, USA.1981 (x) Over 200 Die in ferry capsizing in Meghna, Bangladesh.1988 (x) 108 Die in CAAC Iljoeshin-18 crash in Chongquing, China.1989 (-) Mass Murderer Patrick Edward Purdy aka The S.A.T.A.N. Killer, commits suicide by a shot through the head after killing 5 and wounding over 30 children at the age of 24 in Stockton, Cleveland Elementary School, California, USA.All of the fatally shot victims and many of the wounded were Cambodian and Vietnamese immigrants.1995 (-) Double Murderer Mario Marquez is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2005 (-) Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang dies of multiple strokes two days before at the age of 85 in Beijing, China.He spent nearly 16 years under house arrest after he opposed a military intervention to end the student-led protest at Tienanmen Square. 2006 (-) Multiple Murderer Clarence Ray Allen is executed by lethal injection at the age of 76 in San Quentin State Prison, California, USA.His last meal consisted of Buffalo steak and frybread as well as a bucket of KFC white-meat-only chicken, sugar-free pecan pie, sugar-free walnut ice cream and whole milk. The ice-cream was left out to thaw for one hour, which he turned into a milkshake by hand.2007 (-) Cop Killer Johnathan Moore is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2010 (x) 68-year-old War Criminal Ali Hassan Abd al-Majid al-Tikritieh aka Chemical Ali, is sentenced to death for the fourth time in Iraq.2010 (-) Actor Erich Wolf Segal dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in London, United Kingdom.

Monday, January 16, 2012

1864 (x) 18-year-old Victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols originally Walker aka “Polly”, marries John Nichols in London, United Kingdom.1907 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Peter Kürten aka The Düsseldorfer Monster aka The Vampire of Düsseldorf, tries to commit suicide by lacerating the skin over a main artery in Brieg Penitentiary, Germany.1930 (+) Multiple Murderer Clarence Ray Allen is born in Blair, Oklahoma, USA.1933 (+) Writer and activist Susan Sontag originally Susan Rosenblatt, is born in Manhattan, New York, USA.1935 (-) Gangster Kate “Ma” Barker originally Arizona Clark, is shot dead by FBI agents at the age of 61 in Ocala, Florida, USA.Her son Fred was also shot dead.1936 (-) Serial Killer and Cannibal Albert Howard Hamilton Fish aka The Cannibal, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 65 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.The first blow short-circuited because of a number of needles Fish had inserted in his scrotum during his lifetime. He was the oldest man ever to be executed in Sing Sing.1943 (+) Artist Heinz Cibulka is born in Wien, Austria.1944 (x) Over 500 Die in trainwreck in a tunnel in Leon, Spain.1947 (+) Symbionese Liberation Army member Kathleen Ann Soliah now known as Sara Jane Olson, is born in Barnesville, Minnesota, USA.1948 (+) Filmmaker John Carpenter is born in Carthage, New York, USA.1957 (-) Composer Arturo Toscanini dies of inner bleedings at the age of 89 in New York, New York, USA.1960 (-) Murderer Homer Buckley is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 26 in Reidsville Prison, Georgia, USA.1961 (+) Double murderer Ronnie Lee Gardner is born in Utah, USA.1965 (-) Anna Kalinka is strangled and mutilated by Lucian Staniak aka The Red Spider of Katowice, at the age of 16 in Warsaw, Praga, Poland.

1969 (-) Revolutionary student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation at the age of 20 in Prague, Wenceslas Square, Czechoslowakia.1969 (x) USSR spacecrafts Soyoez 4 and Soyoez 5 are linked in Space.1970 (-) Jean Way is raped, strangled and her breasts chewed away by Wayne Boden aka The Vampire of Montreal, at the age of 23 in Montreal, Canada.1978 (-) Child-killer and would-be mass-murderer Ronald Frank Cooper is executed by hanging at the age of 26 in South Africa.1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Das Berchtesgaden Diner" in Aalst, Fabrieksken, East Flanders, Belgium.1985 (-) Multiple Murderer Doyle Skillern is executed by lethal injection at the age of 49 in Huntsville, Texas, USA.1988 (-) James Doxtator is strangled and cut to pieces by Jeffrey Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, at the age of 15 in West Allis, South 57th street, Wisconsin, USA.2002 (-) Murderer Jermarr Carlos Arnold is executed by lethal injection at the age of 43 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.2007 (-) Enterpreneur and billionaire Rudolf August Oetker dies of pneumonia at the age of 90 in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

1622 (+) Playwriter Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière is born in Paris, France.1906 (+) Billionaire Aristoteles Sokratis Onassis is born in Smyrna, Turkey.1918 (-) Wife-murderer Frederick Small is executed by hanging in Concord State Prison, New Hampshire, USA.1918 (+) President of Egypt Gamal Abdel Nasser is born in Alexandria, Egypt.1919 (-) Karl Liebknecht is shot in the back of the head by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 47 in Berlin, Germany.1919 (-) Rosa Luxemburg is shot in the back of the head and thrown in the Landwehr Canal by Otto Runge & Kurt Vogel at the age of 47 in Berlin, Germany.Her body was only found on 1 june 1919.1924 (-) Heinrich Koch is killed and his meat sold by Fritz Haarmann aka Der Hannover Werwolf, at the age of 20 in Hannover, Germany.1929 (+) Black leader Dr. Martin Luther King jr., is born in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.1932 (-) Murderer Guy Fairley is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Mississippi, USA.1941 (+) Musician and artist Don Donald Glen Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart, is born in Glendale, California, USA.1945 (-) Murderer Henry W. M. Merton is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 31 in Oregon, USA.1945 (-) Murderer Walter Higgins is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 32 in Oregon, USA.1947 (-) Elizabeth Short aka The Black Dahlia, is found severely tortured, murdered, drained of all her blood and cut to pieces by persons unknown at the age of 22 in Los Angeles, Leimert Park, California, USA.1951 (x) 44-year-old KZ-Commander-wife and human-skin-handywoman Ilse Koch originally Ilse Kohler Schnitzel aka Die Hexe von Buchenwald aka Die Buchenwälder Schlampe, is sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany.1953 (+) Double murderer Robert Alton Harris aka The Smiling Killer, is born in California, USA.1971 (x) 30-year-old Performance artist Vito Acconci starts his performance series "Seedbed" at Sonnabend Gallery in New York, New York, USA.1978 (-) Lisa Levy is clubbed to death by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 20 in Tallahassee, Chi Omega Sorority House and nearby apartments, Florida, USA.21-year-old Karen Chandler, Kathy Kleiner and Cheryl Thomas are severely battered but survived.

Saturday, January 14, 2012

1742 (-) Astrologist Edmund Halley dies at the age of 85 in Greenwich, United Kingdom.1875 (+) Theologican, physician, musician and moralist Albert Schweitzer is born in Kayserberg, Germany.1898 (-) Writer, mathematician and photographer Lewis Carroll originally Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, known from “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, dies of pneumonia at the age of 66 in Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom.1908 (-) Murderess Marie Girodin Wilkinson St-Léger Gould is executed by the Guillotine in Monaco.1909 (+) Filmmaker Joseph Losey is born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA.1920 (-) Automobile manufacturing pioneer John Francis Dodge dies of influenza at the age of 55 in New York City, New York, USA.1921 (-) Murderer Pedro Dominguez is executed by hanging at the age of 28 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.1925 (+) Writer Yukio Mishima is born in Tokio, Japan.1925 (-) Murderer Ben Burchfield is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Tennessee, USA.1933 (+) Experimental film-maker Stan James Stanley Brakhage originally Robert Sanders, is born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.He was adopted and renamed three weeks after his birth.1936 (-) Rapist and murderer Clark Miller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Massachussets, USA.1938 (-) Murderer Elvin Jack Odom is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 28 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.1941 (+) Actress Faye Dunaway is born in Bascom, Florida, USA.1944 (+) Bricklayer and first victim of the Berlin Wall Border Guard Peter Fechter is born in Berlin, Germany.1945 (+) Musician Neil Diamond is born in Brooklyn, New York, USA.1946 (+) General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold Frederick Shipman is born in Nottingham, United Kingdom.1951 (x) National Search Day for 3-year-old Pamela Sue, 5-year-old Gary Carl, 7-year-old Ronald Dean, 29-year-old Thelma and 33-year-old Carl Mosser, who were all shot dead by 22-year-old Mass Murderer Billy E. Cook in the USA.1957 (-) Actor Humphrey DeForest Bogart dies of cancer of the estophagus at the age of 57 in Holmby Hills, 232 Mapleton Drive, California, USA.At the time of his death he only weighed 36kgs.1961 (x) Serial Killer Peter Hoessl aka Der Wochenendmörder, is arrested and charged with 5 murders in 5 years in München, Germany.1969 (-) Michèle Louvet is shot by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, in Nogent-sur-Oise, France.She survived.1972 (-) King of Denmark Frederick the 9th dies of a heart attack at the age of 72 in Denmark.1975 (-) Louise Greenberg is assaulted by Joseph Kallinger aka The Shoemaker, in Margate, New Jersey, USA.He is accompanied by his son Michael.

Friday, January 13, 2012

1830 (x) Start of the Great Fire in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.1866 (+) Occult Teacher George Ivanowitsch Gurdjieff is born in Alexandropol, Leniniakin, Russia.The exact date of his birth remains unknown (conjectures range from 1866 to 1877).1908 (x) 171 Die in Rhodes Opera House cinema fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania, USA.1909 (+) Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is born in Leiden, the Netherlands.1919 (+) Actor Robert Langford Modini Stack is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1922 (-) Murderer Ricardo Lauterio is executed by hanging at the age of 24 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.1922 (-) Murderer Thomas Roman is executed by hanging at the age of 33 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.1928 (-) Serial Killer Earle Leonard Nelson aka The Gorilla Murderer, is executed by hanging at the age of 30 in Winnipeg, Canada.1928 (-) Murderer Garfield Fuller is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Georgia, USA.

1941 (-) Writer James Augustine Aloysius Joyce dies of a malignal duodenal tumor at the age of 58 in Zurich, Switzerland.1941 (-) Lotte Marlow is assaulted by Paul Ogorzow aka Der Schnell-Bahn Mörder, at the age of 25 in Berlin, Germany.She survived.1943 (-) Allen M. Small dies of spontaneous human combustion at the age of 52 in Deer Island, Maine, USA.1944 (x) 47-year-old Serial Killer Marcel André Henri Felix Petiot aka The Triangular Chamber of Death Murderer, is released from prison by the French Gestapo in Fresnes, France.1946 (+) Serial Killer Michel Bellen aka The Strangler of the Left Bank, is born in Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium.1958 (x) 30-year-old Serial Killer Peter Thomas Anthony Manuel aka The Monster in Human Shape aka The Beast of Birkenshaw, is arrested in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.1968 (x) 35-year-old Musician and one-time-criminal Johnny Cash aka The Man in Black, plays live in Folsom State Prison, California, USA.1975 (-) Lesley Whittle is kidnapped and killed by Donald Neilson originally Donald Nappey aka The Black Panther Killer, at the age of 17 in Highley, Shropshire, United Kingdom.1980 (x) 20-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Happy Star/Nominette" in Aalst, Fabrieksken, East Flanders, Belgium.1981 (x) 51-year-old Serial Killer Charles Ray Hatcher aka Evil Incarnate, is arrested under the name of Richard Clark, following a knife fight in Des Moines, Iowa, USA.1982 (x) 78 Die in Air Florida Flight 90 Boeing 737 crash into the icy Potomac River in Washington, District Columbia, USA.1984 (x) 32-year-old Serial Killer Gerald Eugene Stano originally Paul Zeininger aka Blind Fury, is sentenced to life-imprisonment for one murder in Seminole County Courthouse, Florida, USA.It’s his eighth life-sentence, and the first time ever that somebody is sentenced for the murder of an unidentified person.1985 (x) 418 Die in train derailment off a viaduct in Awash, Ethiopia.It was the worst train disaster in Africa.1986 (-) Françoise Vendome is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 83 in Paris 12th, 68 rue de Charenton, France.1991 (x) 40 Die in soccer riot in Johannesburg, South Africa.1992 (x) Start of the trial against 31-year-old Serial Killer Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer aka The Milwaukee Cannibal, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1995 (-) Malaysian drug trafficker Chan Ting Chong aka Steven, is executed by the Firing Squad in Indonesia.He was the first person known to have been executed for drug-related offences in Indonesia.1999 (-) Murderer Jess James Gillies is executed by lethal injection at the age of 38 in Florence State Prison, Arizona, USA.1999 (-) Cop Killer Troy Dale Farris is executed by lethal injection at the age of 36 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.1999 (-) Murderer Kelvin Shelby Malone is executed at the age of 37 in Missouri, USA.2002 (-) General Practitioner and Serial Killer Harold Frederick Shipman commits suicide by hanging in his prison cell at the age of 56 in Wakefield, Her Majesty's Prison, United Kingdom.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

1860 (-) Murderer Patrick Maude is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in New Jersey, USA.1876 (+) Writer Jack London is born in San Francisco, California, USA.1891 (+) Biochemist Jack Cecil Drummond is born in London, United Kingdom.1893 (+) Nazi-leader Hermann Göring is born in Mariënbad-sanatorium, Rosenheim, Germany.1918 (+) Spiritual Leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is born in Raipur, India.1926 (x) Start of the second trial against 24-year-old Accomplice of Fritz Haarmann, Der Hannover Werwolf, Hans Grans in Hannover, Schwurgericht, Germany.1928 (-) Murderess Ruth Brown Snyder aka The Granite Woman, is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 33 in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.The final moments of her execution were caught on film with the aid of a miniature one time use camera strapped to the ankle of Tom Howard, a Chicago Tribune photographer.1928 (-) Murderer Judd Henry Gray aka Lover Boy, is executed by Old Sparky in New York, Sing Sing Prison, New York, USA.1942 (+) Weather Underground Leader Bernardine Rae Dohrn originally Ohmstein, is born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.1944 (+) Rote Armee Fraktion 2nd Generation member Inge Viett is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.1949 (-) Murderess Margaret Allen aka ‘Bill’, dies at the age of 42 in Manchester, Strangeways Prison, United Kingdom.She killed an elderly widow “in one of my funny moods”.1950 (x) 64 Die in Truculent submarine collision with the Swedish tanker Davina in the Thames Estuary in the United Kingdom.1950 (+) Cop Killer Ricky Ray Rector is born in Arkansas, USA.1953 (-) Rita Nelson is strangled and raped by John Reginald Christie of 10 Rillington Place, at the age of 25 in London, United Kingdom.1960 (-) Writer Nevil Shute originally Nevil Norway, dies of a heart attack at the age of 61 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.1960 (x) 23-year-old Serial Killer Henry Lee Lucas aka The Hand of Death, stabbs his mother Viola to death in Tecumseh, Michigan, USA.1961 (x) 37-year-old Writer Norman Kingsley Mailer is released on a 2500$ bail after being arrested for stabbing his wife in New York, New York, USA.1975 (-) Caryn Campbell is abducted and bludgeoned by Ted Bundy aka The Only Living Witness, at the age of 23 in Snowmass Village, Colorado, USA.

1976 (-) Writer Agatha Dame Clarissa Mary Christie dies at the age of 85 in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.1983 (-) Cult-leader Lindbergh Sanders is shot dead with 6 other members in a 30-hour gun-fight with the police at the age of 49 in Memphis, Shannon Street, Tennessee, USA.The day before Sanders had taken police officer Robert S. Hester hostage. During the shootout Hester was beaten to death.1986 (-) Marjem Jurblum is tortured and killed by Thierry Paulin aka Le Tueur de la Pleine Lune, at the age of 81 in Paris 11th, 7 rue Pelée, France.1988 (x) Start of the trial against 26-year-old Serial Killer Kenneth Erskine aka The Stockwell Strangler, in London, Old Bailey, United Kingdom.2000 (-) Double murderer Earl Carl Jr. Heiselbetz is executed by lethal injection at the age of 48 in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

1872 (+) Serial Killer George Joseph Smith aka The Brides in the Bath Murderer, is born in London, United Kingdom.1923 (x) French and Belgian armies occupy the Ruhr-area up to Bochum as a repercussion for damages suffered during WWI in Germany.1928 (-) Writer Thomas Hardy dies of a cold-inflammation at the age of 87 in Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom.1935 (x) 37-year-old Aviation pioneer Amelia Mary Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo from Hawaï to California in the USA.1936 (+) Artist Eva Hesse is born in Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.1938 (x) 31-year-old Writer Samuel Beckett is stabbed and wounded by a pimp in Paris, France.1941 (+) Artist Barry Flanagan is born in Prestatyn, Wales, United Kingdom.1950 (x) Start of the trial against 25-year-old Timothy John Evans aka The Innocent Strangler of 10 Rillington Place, who was charged with the murder of his wife and baby daughter, who were actually killed by John Christie, in London, Old Bailey N°1 Court, United Kingdom.1953 (x) First Bomb explosion by 49-year-old George Peter Metesky aka The Mad Bomber, in New York’s Pennsylvania Railroad Station, New York, USA.1955 (-) Murderer Eugene Monahan is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in New Jersey, USA.1957 (-) Matricider Jack Gilbert Graham is executed by the Gas Chamber at the age of 24 in Colorado, USA.1957 (-) Murderer Otto Austin Loel is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Oklahoma, USA.1959 (-) Carrol Jackson is killed and raped by Melvin Rees aka The Sex Beast, in Apple Grove, Virginia, USA.He also forced her husband and two children in the trunk of a car, and killed them later.1966 (-) Artist Alberto Giacometti dies at the age of 64 in Chur, Graubunden, Switzerland.1968 (-) Composer Reszoe Seress aka Rudi, originally Spitzer, commits suicide by jumping through his window at the age of 78 in Budapest, Hungary.His song 'Szomorú Vasárnap (Gloomy Sunday)' sparked a worldwide wave of suicides in 1933.1979 (-) Diane Wilder is strangled by Kenneth Bianchi aka The Hillside Strangler, in Bellington, Bayside Drive, Washington, USA.1979 (x) 19-year-old Performance artist Danny Devos aka DDV, performs "Installation - 1" in Gent, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, East Flanders, Belgium.1982 (x) Start of the trial against 42-year-old Serial Killer Clifford Robert Olsen aka The Vancouver Butcher, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.1983 (-) USSR-leader Nikolay Viktorovitsch Podgorny dies at the age of 79 in Moscow, Russia.

2005 (-) Actress Thelma White originally Thelma Wolpa aka Reefer Madness, dies of pneumonia at the age of 94 in Woodland Hills, Motion Picture and Television Hospital, California, USA.The last years of her life she spent solitary with her Mexican Hairless Dogs.2007 (-) Writer and Agnostic Mystic Robert Anton Edward Wilson dies at the age of 75 in Capitola, California, USA.2008 (-) Explorer Sir Edmund Perceval Hillary dies of heart failure at the age of 88 in Auckland, City Hospital, New Zealand.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

1862 (-) Firearms inventor Samuel Colt dies at the age of 47 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA.1883 (x) 73 Die in Newall Hotel fire in Milwaukee, USA.1888 (-) Wife-murderer Dr. Philip Cross aka The Coachford Poisoner, is executed by hanging at the age of 62 in Dublin, Ireland.1912 (+) Auschwitz-Birkenau SS-Oberaufseherin Maria Mandel aka The Beast, is born in Münzkirchen, Austria.1917 (+) Multiple Murderer Lester Edward Bartholomew is born in Arizona, USA.1917 (-) Bison hunter and showman William Frederick Cody aka Buffalo Bill, dies of kidney failure at the age of 70 in Denver, Colorado, USA.1930 (-) Murderer Edward Ives is executed by hanging at the age of 44 in Colorado, USA.1934 (-) Presumable arsonist of the Reichstag Marinus Van Der Lubbe is executed by hanging at the age of 25 in Leipzig, Germany.1943 (+) Singer-songwriter Jim James Joseph Croce is born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.1945 (+) Musician Rod Stewart is born in London, United Kingdom.1949 (+) Heavyweight Boxing-champion George Foreman is born in Marshall, Texas, USA.1949 (+) Porn Actress Linda Lovelace originally Linda Susan Boreman, is born in The Bronx, New York, USA.1956 (+) Son of Geraldine Yvonne Vinal and Angelo Buono aka The Hillside Strangler, Michael Lee is born in Los Angeles, California, USA.1961 (-) Writer Samuel Dashiell Hammett dies at the age of 66 in New York, New York, USA.1963 (+) Murderer David Dewayne Johnson is born in Arkansas, USA.1970 (-) Voskhod II cosmonaut Pavel Ivanovich Belyayev dies of peritonitis at the age of 44 in Moscow, USSR.1972 (-) John Szyc is murdered by John Gacy aka The Killer Clown, in Des Plaines, Chicago, Illinois, USA.1976 (-) Françoise Lecron is shot by Marcel Barbeault aka Le Tueur de l’Ombre, in Nogent-sur-Oise, rue Faidherbe, France.She survived.1976 (-) Blues music pioneer Chester Arthur Burnett aka Howlin’ Wolf, dies of complications of kidney disease at the age of 65 in Hines, Illinois, USA.1983 (x) 36-year-old Serial Killer Peter Sutcliffe aka The Yorkshire Ripper, is attacked with a broken coffee-jar by murderer Jimmy Costelloe in F2 Hospital wing of Parkhurst Prison, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom.1986 (-) Murderer James Terry Roach is executed by Old Sparky in South Carolina, USA.1997 (-) Arsonist and murderer Billy W. Waldrop is executed by Old Sparky at the age of 44 in Alabama, USA.1998 (x) Start of the trial against Serial Killer Aida Nureddin Mohammed aka The Angel of Death, in Caïro, Egypt.

2004 (-) Actor, screenwriter and playwright Spalding Gray commits suicide by drowning at the age of 62 in East River, New York, USA.2005 (x) 46-year-old Son of Marlon, Christian Brando is charged with spousal abuse of 48-year-old Deborah Presley in Los Angeles, California, USA.Five months later they divorced.2007 (-) Murderer Carlos Granados is executed by lethal injection in Huntsville Prison, Texas, USA.